Progestogens and early pregnancy:prevention and treatment

摘要

During human and mammalian pregnancy,endogenous progesterone is the dominant hormone since it is not only essential for conception and implantation,but also needed throughout pregnancy.Progesterone provided the effects of prevention and treatment in human pregnancy by certain mechanisms.If one considers prevention or treatment with progestogens in human pregnancy,that all progestogens are progestogenic,if one condsiders the progestogens for prevention and therapeutic approaches,nowadays,only two progenstogens can be considered fully suitable for prevention and treatment in human pregnancy:progesterone and dydrogesteone.This review introduced the mechanism of progesterone and dydrogesterone in pregnancy and treatment in human.